Nova Scotia Alternative Budget 2014

The 2014 Nova Scotia Alternative Provincial Budget provides a blueprint and lays out more than 99 ways that our government can improve the province for all of us—including how we can begin addressing income inequality and build a strong and more prosperous province where more of us share in that prosperity.

This year’s alternative budget is the culmination of a collaborative effort involving more than 40 individuals from academia, the non-profit sector and labour organizations.

For more reading, see Nova Scotia: We Have Everything We Need to Succeed, by Larry Haiven. This blog post is a concluding piece to this year's Alternative Provincial Budget, and addresses some of the dominant negative discourse about Nova Scotia from pundits in certain sectors of the province.

Halifax—Another new government and another opportunity to consider what the next four years and beyond will bring for Nova Scotians. It is critical for Nova Scotians to hold our governments accountable for the choices that it makes or doesn’t make on our behalf.